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Uptick in Breakfast Sandwich Offerings

Reporter | BMM | May 15 | trends
CHICAGO—The country's largest chain restaurants have been increasing sandwich offerings as part of the breakfast scene in order to grow same-store sales.
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Signs of Recovery in U.S. Restaurant Industry

Reporter | BMM | Mar 21 | food, trends
CHICAGO — The 500 largest U.S. restaurant chains registered a 4.9 percent annual sales increase in 2012, a marked improvement over 3.5 percent the prior year.
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Small Business Bankruptcies Falling, Incomes Rising

Reporter | BMM | Mar 19 | trends
Data: SBA's Office of Advocacy* WASHINGTON — The Small Business Administration says that small businesses continue to show signs of economic recovery.
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Weather, Sequestration Drag Retail Sales in February

Reporter | BMM | Mar 7 | retail, trends
NEW YORK — Retail chain stores in the United States posted a modest gain of 1.7 percent for the fiscal month of February on a year-over-year basis, according to a tally of comparable-store sales compiled by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).
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Gluten Avoiders Reach New High in 2013

Reporter | BMM | Mar 7 | food, trends
  "I'm trying to cut back/avoid gluten in my diet." Source: NPD Group/Dieting Monitor, 52 week year ending Jan. 30, '13 CHICAGO —As of this January about a third of U.S. adults say they want to cut down or be free of gluten in their diets, the highest percentage making this claim since market researcher The NPD Group, began asking the question in 2009.
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Restaurants Must Build Customer Loyalty

Reporter | BMM | Feb 15 | food, trends
Data: The NPD Group/Planning for Growth in the New Normal Marketplace CHICAGO — With little to no growth forecasted for the restaurant industry over the next several years and consumer frugality being the "new norm," restaurants will need to cater to the needs of their cost-conscious customers to build loyalty and enhance value, according to market researcher The NPD Group.
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Best Western, Days Inn Have Strongest Brand Loyalty in Midscale and Economy Hotels

Reporter | BMM | Feb 14 | hotel, trends
Emotional engagement: Best Western provides cleaned spare blankets & pillows in a new "wrap," reassuring each guest of cleanliness. Photo/BW NEW YORK — Best Western and Days Inn are the top brands for customer loyalty in their respective hotel categories. The Best Western brand is ranked number one by consumers for midscale hotels and Days Inn is ranked number one for economy hotels.
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Valentine’s Shoppers Procrastinate

Reporter | BMM | Feb 9 | food, retail, trends
Data: The NPD Group/SnackTrack Holidays Valentine's Day Profile CHICAGO — Seventy-eight percent of shoppers will not begin to shop for Valentine's Day until at least a week before, finds a recent survey by market researchers The NPD Group .
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Sports Team Franchises To See Strong Growth; Fast Food Not So Much

Reporter | BMM | Feb 3 | buy, entertainment, franchising, trends
Growth in professional sports franchises & key related industries Data: www.IbisWorld.com SANTA MONICA, Calif. —If you want to own a franchise, research shows that the boats rise a little faster for sports team owners. If you can afford one, professional sports team franchises will be one of the strongest growing sectors compared to other sectors tied to sports.
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McDonald’s Store Comps to Improve Says Janney, but Franchisees Unhappy

Reporter | BMM | Jan 17 | food, manage, trends
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Janney Capital Markets maintained its rating of buy for McDonald's stock (NYSE:MCD) based on its anticipation that same-store sales for McDonald's restaurant units will gradually improve in 2013. "We believe that investors are more prepared today than they were in September for the tough sales comparisons," said Mark Kalinowski, analyst for Janney.
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Headlines from the 'Net

Hotel Trends for 2013

Expert | Robert Mandelbaum | May 23 | hotel, trends

Researcher Robert Mandelbaum summarizes financial operating trends for hotel properties into 2013.

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Annual Meat Consumption per Capita by Country

Reporter | BMM | May 18 | food, trends

via chartsbin.com

This map from ChartsBin shows current worldwide annual Meat Consumption per capita. World average meat consumption: 41.90 kg per person per year.

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Relax! Resorts Are Recovering

Expert | Robert Mandelbaum | May 16 | hotel, trends

Conventional wisdom says that high-end resort hotels should be particularly vulnerable to economic recessions because of the discretionary nature of the expenditure.

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The Future of Australian Franchising’s Underbelly

Australia | Ray Borradale | May 7 | trends

Australian franchisees from many brands and with protracted stories of franchising disasters are coming out of the woodwork yet again.

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Menu Guidance on Seafood Origin Means More Sales

Member | BMM Staff | Mar 21 | food, trends

Seafood consumers increasingly want to be reassured about what they're eating.

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Restaurant Traffic, Sales Down Significantly in February

Member | BMM Staff | Mar 8 | trends

Restaurant industry analysis for February by Black Box Intelligence showed notable declines.

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Tesla CEO Calls Negative NY Times Article 'Fake'

Member | Dave Tanaka | Feb 27 | people, trends

New York Times reporter John M. Broder has been caught fudging the facts in his negative article on the Tesla electric car he test drove, says Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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Today's $90 Oil Floor Is Tomorrow's Ceiling

Reporter | BMM | Feb 26 | manage, trends

Edward Morse, head of commodities research at Citigroup Global Markets Inc., discusses today's somewhat high price in U.S petroleum, saying he expects it to come down, and covers the outlook for global crude oil markets.

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NADA: Economic Momentum Grows in 2013

Reporter | BMM | Feb 25 | retail, trends

Chief economist of the National Automobile Dealers Association Paul Taylor foresees sales momentum for new cars and lights trucks to grow more in 2013.

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More Older Workers Switching to Business Ownership

Member | Sam Blake | Feb 24 | people, trends

More people between the ages of 55 to 64 are opting to become franchise owners or entrepreneurs after decades of working for someone else, according to research by the Kauffman Foundation.

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Expert Advice

Au Contraire, Mon Ami

Expert | Bob O'Brien | May 15 | trends
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Is there anything the U.S. press likes more than a piece of news that makes the French look less French and more, well, American?

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Go with the Flow

Expert | Robert Mandelbaum | Apr 17 | hotel, trends
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Average Flow-Multiples for Hotel Properties
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The U.S. lodging industry recovery made great progress in 2011 with over 70 percent of the hotels in the nation showing increases in both revenue and profits during the year.

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Walmart Blames Q1 Sales Slump on New Consumer Technology

Expert | Nikki Baird | Apr 9 | retail, trends
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Walmart’s woes continue as more leaked emails reveal a growing concern among company executives over a new consumer technology that promises to completely disrupt the mass merchant’s business model.

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